Senior Lead Counsel, Pinterest
Product & Commercial
$158.9-327k
+ Equity
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Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
Open for applications
Visual bookmarking tool for saving & discovering creative ideas
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$158.9-327k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love.
Role
Who you are
- We are a small and nimble team supporting a growing business, so you’ll need to be enthusiastic about working successfully as a manager, an individual contributor, and a team player
- JD with 10+ years of experience handling consumer internet matters in a demanding and innovative legal environment; at least 2 years in-house at a tech company preferred
- Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law in California
- Experience counseling on issues related to artificial intelligence, copyright, and privacy
- Proven leadership skills; experience managing teams preferred
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex technology deals
- Exceptional judgment and impeccable integrity with excellent communication skills
- Process-driven and results-oriented with proven ability to identify, prioritize and resolve issues quickly and independently
- Strategic thinking, with a track record of delivering creative and pragmatic solutions to novel issues
- Strong project management skills, with ability to build sustainable programs and processes for scale and drive strategic, cross-functional initiatives to completion
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a self-motivated, practical and creative attorney who will report to our Head of Product, Engineering & Business Development Legal and devise legal strategy for various critical areas of our core product
- In this role, your primary focus will be managing a small team, supporting our core product, and negotiating related strategic partnerships
- You’ll be a subject matter expert and influential advisor to senior business and legal leadership alike, and will drive strategy on cutting-edge legal issues
- Build and manage a small legal team supporting critical areas of the core Pinterest product
- Devise legal strategy and advise product, engineering, business development, strategy and communications leaders on key emerging areas for our core product, with a particular focus on AI, content acquisition, IP/copyright, open source, and privacy issues
- Negotiate and lead ongoing legal support for strategic partnerships related to emerging technologies leveraged by our core product, with a particular focus on AI
- Develop and drive implementation of processes, resources, and measures to manage risk, increase speed and efficiency, and advance the long-term business goals of Pinterest
Our take
Inspiration and ideas can pop into your head at any time, and with the growth of social media and networking, sharing these interests and gaining exposure has never been easier. Pinterest exists to display these moments visually, as a kind of digital pinboard allowing users to save and share digital images which have inspired them.
Pinterest's emphasis on visual discovery has differentiated it from competitors and created a more positive and fulfilling experience for its users. Pinterest in many ways provides a respite from the ceaseless negativity that plagues social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and this is perhaps responsible for its userbase expanding to 450 million users in 2022, driven by uptake mostly outside of North America.
Pinterest has not been immune to woes affecting the global tech sector and made about 5% of its workforce redundant at the end of 2022 and the start of 2023. Having restructured to face a challenging climate, it is well-positioned to resume its growth, which has increased consistently year on year. Its immediate goals are to continue to grow its user base and expand the uptake of its short video product, which it aims to monetize.
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Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Ben Silbermann
(CEO)Worked as a Product Specialist at Google for 2 years before leaving to work on his own apps, which led to founding Pinterest
People progressing
Joined as Marketing Lead, promoted to Head of Growth Ops for English-speaking markets after 3 years. They've have since been promoted to Global Head of Editorial, a position they started in 2022.
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